Golf of the Year

jtown · 08-10-2013 10:01am #1

I am the secretary of the local society and trying to think of ways to include more.

I was thinking of getting your stable ford score multiply by 2 and winner at the end of the year wins.

We only have 5 outings a year and if you win 2 events your home and hosed. The consistent players isn't rewarded.

Currently system is:
1st - 15pts
2nd - 12pts
3rd - 11pts and so on

What you think?

mafc · 08-10-2013 10:06am

Best 3 or 4 cards out of 5, instead of using your current points system use whatever stableford points each individual has on the day.

jtown · 08-10-2013 10:08am

mafc wrote: »

Best 3 or 4 cards out of 5, instead of using your current points system use whatever stableford points each individual has on the day.

Ya sounds good I think...

I was going to multiply by 2 - see what im thinking - you could have 38 points, not get a prize and only get 7 GOY points. Would make the players who have say 34 standing on the 18th to try harder too.

mafc · 08-10-2013 10:13am

jtown wrote: »

Ya sounds good I think...

I was going to multiply by 2 - see what im thinking - you could have 38 points, not get a prize and only get 7 GOY points. Would make the players who have say 34 standing on the 18th to try harder too.

Agreed, it keeps everything tighter and it also means if someone wins with say 36pts 2nd has 36pts beaten on countback, they both have the same points in GOTY.

Keeps everyone interested & might get more people to play more often if they believe they still have a chance...:D

jtown · 08-10-2013 10:18am

mafc wrote: »

Agreed, it keeps everything tighter and it also means if someone wins with say 36pts 2nd has 36pts beaten on countback, they both have the same points in GOTY.

Keeps everyone interested & might get more people to play more often if they believe they still have a chance...:D

Ya thats what I feel, also the same people are there every year which is turning people away I think. If tied count back on the last outing/ back 9/ back 3... etc

mafc · 08-10-2013 10:24am

Using the stableford pts system will ensure the most consistent golfer wins

jtown · 08-10-2013 10:29am

How come clubs don't use this system?

mafc · 08-10-2013 10:34am

jtown wrote: »

How come clubs don't use this system?

Good question ...... don't have the answer for that.

PARlance · 08-10-2013 10:35am

Why the need to multiply by 2?

Wouldn't it be the same if you just totalled the stableford points?

PARlance · 08-10-2013 11:06am

mafc wrote: »

Using the stableford pts system will ensure the most consistent golfer wins

Only as long as you use all outings to count.
It's probably a better system but it has its flaws.
If counting 3/5, then a player could play the 3 hardest and end up with an average of 30 points, on difficult courses this might get him high finishes.
Another player could play the 3 easiest and finish with more points yet further down the list in positions for those events.

spacecoyote · 08-10-2013 12:10pm

jtown wrote: »

How come clubs don't use this system?

Because as far as I know, for most clubs goy is based on the medals & big events, which are usually stroke play events

jtown · 08-10-2013 12:12pm

Best to count all 5 so... Going to take it to our AGM in a month and see what people thing..

kkelliher · 08-10-2013 2:24pm

jtown wrote: »

How come clubs don't use this system?

because it does not award those who play on the difficult courses. You penalise the guy who scores 40 points on an easy course and 20 points on a hard course when by only selected say 5 from 7 events. The guy who misses the hard courses therefore has an advantage.

jtown · 08-10-2013 2:42pm

kkelliher wrote: »

because it does not award those who play on the difficult courses. You penalise the guy who scores 40 points on an easy course and 20 points on a hard course when by only selected say 5 from 7 events. The guy who misses the hard courses therefore has an advantage.

will count all 5 round then, that is fair.

josie19 · 08-10-2013 4:03pm

Two other possibilities:

Award 15 points to the winner, 14 points to the 2nd all the way down to 1 pt for 15th.

Alternative:

Award points on the basis of turnout for the event. 22 competitors then 22 points for the winner down to 1 point for last (a reward for turning up !). This is possibly a fairer method as the bigger the field the more diificult to win.

DuckSlice · 08-10-2013 6:31pm

I have seen clubs use the stableford for GOY comps along with bonus points but I'm not sure of the ins and outs of it.

In the society I'm in we have a GOY comp. we do the points differently tho.
A win is 11. Then 9,7,6,5,4,3,2. And everybody gets a point for turning up. Plus we do handicap adjustments. It keeps it a bit tighter and bar the first two year, when there was no handicap system in place nobody has won it 2 years in a row. Once you win the GOY you also get cut an extra shot, if you win captains day(major) you get cut 2 shots. Keeps it tight. We have 2 outings left and there is still 4/5 people that can win it

GreeBo · 08-10-2013 11:09pm

counting all 5 means of you miss an event you are out.

I'd count 3 or 4, and assign points based on how much you beat css on the day by.
that takes into account course difficulty and also means a great round on a tough day is rewarded more than on an easy day.

Boskowski · 08-10-2013 11:16pm

My club uses for GOY the following; whether that's a good system and why it's being done that way I don't know:

20 points for standard scratch. Then subtract or add to this whatever the score is related to standard scratch. One better than standard scratch gets 21 points. Three worse gets 17. And so on. And they do top 8 cards, so for you that would probably top 4.

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